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Energy can get wasted through several means. One of the most obvious ones is friction. However, entropy also increases - and energy therefore gets wasted - in other ways; for example, when there is a heat transfer between two objects that are at different temperatures; when eddies are produced in a water current (or electrical current); when electrical current gets converted to heat in a resistance; and through several other means. Quite often, the intention of an energy transformation is to produce one type of energy (for example, light in a light-bulb); but additional (undesired) types of energy are produces as well, quite often heat.

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